If you are new to source control in a collaborative environment or want to transition from centralized systems to Github this session is for you.

Git: Git is an extremely fast, efficient, distributed version control system, ideal for the collaborative development of software.

GitHub: GitHub is the best way to collaborate with others. Fork, send pull requests and manage all your public and private git repositories.

We will go through the basics of setting up Git, Github and branching, merging, forking and other relevant topics. We will also talk about popular tools and how this all fits into an Agile or collaborative environment.

Code Genesys is an Agile/Lean Web and Mobile development shop delivering successful outcomes and building satisfying partnerships.

ScrumDo: Helping Deliver Successful outcomes

In the last year, ScrumDo's premier mostly open source offering ScrumDo.com is steadily

emerging as the leading lean Scrum tool truly reflecting the Agile manifesto, with thousands of successful projects and a growing number of satisfied clients, including some of the world’s best known and fastest growing companies. What started as two man Django shop is now serving tens of thousands of customers without almost any focus on marketing or sales.

Its singular focus is to help teams deliver successful outcomes.

About Ajay Reddy:

Ajay Reddy is a Massachusetts based Agile technologist and founder at Code Genesys IT Consulting, co-architect of ScrumDo. While he loves technology he's also a husband, father, budding theologian, movie buff, and outdoors guy. He lives in Upton with his wife Diana and their three wonderful kids.

I figured I'd post a link to a Git meetup event we're putting on this upcoming Wednesday (12/18/2013). It's going to be a short (3 hour), hands-on, git workshop and I promise it will be a ton of fun. Sign up if you want to get first-hand experience building a simple landing page and collaborating with other people using git and GitHub. If you guys got excited about git and want to bring your git-fu to the next level, you should sign up. :)

Excellent job by Ajay and Bala. Thanks to the presenters for clearing up some of the confusion around this topic. It was also brave of Bala to take on a live demo in front of over 300 people. Clearly he was very prepared. A more in-depth workshop on git would make a great sequel to this event!

I would like to thank last night's the presenters for introducing the community to Git and Github. I would recommend this video presentation from one of the Github founders to continue learning about Git and Github

Just a suggestion: if future presenters could host their slidedecks somewhere public ahead of the presentation, those of us with portable gadgets - and there are a lot in the room - can use them to download the slidedecks and follow along. It's really hard to see the slides from some of the seats because the many rows of chairs aren't elevated at all. Also, good jobs on the presentation and on the event(s), guys.

I give this presentation five stars. The presenters were excellent! I felt the speakers were well informed about the topic, and able to field various questions from the audience. They went at a good pace, paused to answer questions while presenting, and had good visuals. Next time I would just check to make sure laptops are ready first, before installing git. :O) I walked out of there feeling that git version control and github are a must for developers. I am even more motivated to learn such valuable tools.

A former member

It was an extremely good presentation. I liked that the presenters dove deeply into how to use Git, while providing a clear overview. It is a great help for us as we think about the future of our version control tools. Like any meetup, not everything went smoothly. That's why 4 stars rather than 5.

Very good presentation. Github was a little disturbing as it could look like a centralized repository. I am ready now to move from svn to git. It would be nice to have a meeting git part 2 to discuss more in detail branches strategies....Thank yousylvie

A former member

This was my first meetup with this group and I'm sorry for being the one to have to say this, but this talk was not what I expected. I came only for the talk and wanted to get into using Git and GitHub and not attend to a game show... I had to get out early, the jumping back and forth of the slides and the topics was just too much.

We have been meeting since 2002. We have more than 3,600 members, and usually meet every month on a Wednesday. We have a wide range of topics all related to PHP, Web Development, and Open Source technology.

All meetings are free, and we encourage everyone to participate and get involved and help grow the PHP community. After each meeting we typically go to a nearby restaurant/bar/pub for more informal discussion.

Our 99 Percent Solution strategy offers services beyond monthly meetups. For example, we have developed four virtual self-study groups that are run year-round: PHP Percolate!, jQuery jAM, HTML5 Brunch and Drupal Diner. More than 175 members have been enshrined on our Self-Study Group | Wall of Accomplishment.

We base all our meetings from attendee suggestions. If you have an idea for a topic that you would like to see (or present), please use our ideas section.

Calling all presenters:

We want to have a mix of events from beginner and advanced topics. We are looking for presenters for each of these topics. If you (or someone you know) are experienced in a topic and have some presentation skills - then please let us know. We are also looking for volunteers to help us with planning, logistics, and other odd jobs.